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(Pl.X.1 foreground). This pit showed that the area under the threshold formed part of the cavity in the rock already mentioned. The doorway is flanked on the west by a large single block with a step cut in the top. It is 1.82 m. in length, 0.65 in thickness and 1.05 in height; it rests on a base block of longer dimensions leaving a narrow margin all round, except on the door side, where the margin is broader and was probably extended by other slabs to form the threshold now missing. The step in the top of this block was possibly cut to seat the stone or mudbrick next above it. The eastern side of the doorway is not so well preserved. There is a lower block 1.05 in length, 0.75 in width and 0.47 m. in height with smaller blocks to the east. The upper part of the door jamb is missing.
Of the walls of the room, the best preserved are those of the southernmost end (rooms IX-X; Pl.XVIII). Here the part built of dressed blocks is complete and gives evidence of the manner in which the remainder of the walls was built. Of the other walls only the course on which the dressed blocks must have once rested [handwritten: /] … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain